THRILLER – EN GRYM FILM (“Thriller – A Cruel Film”) Production: Sweden, 1973 Director: Bo Arne Vibenius Category: Drugs/Sex/Violence Bo Arne Vibenius’s ultra-sleazy, ultra-violent exploitation movie must be among the most extreme of its kind ever to emerge from Sweden. Christina Lindberg suffers with an almost serene passivity as Frigga, Continue Reading
BRUTALITÄT IN STEIN
BRUTALITÄT IN STEIN (“Brutality In Stone”) Production: Germany, 1961 Director: Alexander Kluge & Peter Schamoni Category: Documentary/Architecture The first short film by Kluge, later a key signatory to the Oberhausen Manifesto that helped revolutionise the German film industry, is an eerie montage of structural ruins left behind by Hitler and the Continue Reading
BRUJO
BRUJO (“Shaman”) Production: Mexico, 1978 Director: Georges Payrastre & Claudine Viallon Category: Documentary/Witchcraft A powerful 55-minute documentary on shamanism amongst the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, and among two groups of Mayan Indians in southern Mexico and Guatemala. Sequences show a shaman exorcising a spell from a woman by a Continue Reading
RYAKUSHO RENZOKU SHASATSUMA
RYAKUSHO RENZOKU SHASATSUMA (“Abbreviation: Demon Gun-Killer”) Production: Japan, 1969 Director: Masao Adachi, Mamoru Sasaki & Masao Matsuda Category: Experimental/Political/True Crime Produced by Koji Wakamatsu, Adachi’s film is a true underground classic, recreating the voyage across Japan of Norio Nagayama, a real-life, 19-year-old killer who murdered four victims by gunshot in Continue Reading
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD Production: USA, 1975 Director: Allan Arkush & Joe Dante Category: Satire Posted by The Purple Gas